Fraternity and Sorority Community Member Contributions to The Foundations of Strenghts of Lafayette College 2012

President Daniel H Weiss has published The Foundations of Strength 2012 Presidents Report. “My belief that Lafayette belongs among the nation’s leading colleges is based on important qualities which, when viewed in the aggregate, truly set us apart. These distinguishing attributes were not achieved by accident.
They result from years of careful thinking on the part of our trustees and others about how to create educational value, in the broadest sense, and how to convey that value to undergraduates in fresh and relevant ways.
The following sections describe six attributes that, in my view, combine to create a level of educational excellence that few other colleges deliver as effectively as we do.”

Fraternity and Sorority Community Members Contributions compiled from Foundations of Strength 2012 of Lafayette College  Twitter: #LafStrengths2012FS
  • Fraternity & Sorority Members of the Alternative School Break Club
  • 101 Student-athletes are named to Patriot League Honor Roll for fall sports:  http://greeklife.lafayette.edu/2012/02/17/18-fraternity-and-sorority-members-named-to-patriot-league-academic-honor-roll/
  • 24 Students are invited to present at the National Conference on the Undergraduate Research:  http://greeklife.lafayette.edu/2012/02/18/7-sorority-women-as-part-of-lafayette-group-invited-to-present-at-national-conference-on-undergraduate-research/
  • Bridget Greeley ’12 (Pi Beta Phi) and David Wenger ’12 (Phi Psi) awarded Projects for Peace grant by the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Foundation to work with at-risk high school students in New Jersey
  • Zach Gold ’13 (Delta Upsilon) is awarded an Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • Megan Cassidy ’12 (Delta Delta Delta) and Katie O’Neall ’12 (Alpha Gamma Delta) help restore Renaissance art masterpieces as interns in the Save Venice program.
  • Alyssa Smith ’11 (Delta Delta Delta) excels in a national video competition sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
  • The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams are recognized for academic excellence by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America:  http://greeklife.lafayette.edu/2012/02/17/lafayette-sorority-and-fraternity-members-compete-at-patriot-league-championships-2012-annapolis-md/
  • Students publish the inaugural edition of My Easton, a guidebook to the city:  Maddie Laskoski ’13 (AGD)
  • Diane Cole Ahl, Rothkopf Professor of Art, Rado Pribic, Williams Professor of Languages, and Rachel Davidson ’13 (Alpha Phi) host an international conference on Nazi-looted art
  • Five students present research at the annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience:  Camille Borland (Alpha Phi)
  • Rebecca Heslin ’12 (Alpha Phi): featured in “A Vibrant Alumni Network”
  • Sorority Members on the field hockey team